Qisda Announces 2010 iF Design Award Honors
The QCM-330 Smartphone Earns Golden Praise

Qisda's QCM-330 Smartphone has won a 2010 iF Gold Award following the 10 iF Product Design Awards the company took home last December. After earning the most awards of any company in Taiwan, Qisda once again earned this high honor generally considered to be the Oscar of the industrial design world.

Yesterday, March 2, an award ceremony was held in Hannover, Germany where iF chairman Ralph Wiegmann admired the QCM-330's flawless integration of communications technologies, industrial design, visual minimalism, quality, and its remarkably classic appearance. In Germany to accept the award, Qisda VP and Chief Design Officer Manfred Wang expressed gratitude for the award in German and described how Qisda, through its design capabilities, has elevated the value-added efforts of Taiwan's technology industry, which has already received extensive international acclaim.

Qisda's first participation in last year's iF Design Award competition resulted in 5 awards. This year, Qisda not only doubled the amount of awards it took home to 10 to maintain the distinction of winning the most in Taiwan, but also captured a Gold Award, the competition's highest honor. Since 2008, Qisda has won 37 international design awards including iF, red dot, and G-Mark.

Manfred Wang went on to point out that Qisda's design capabilities are one of its core competitive strengths. Through the company's world-class industrial design and its outstanding ability to integrate engineering and design, the perfect blend of form and function is achieved. This increases the value-added to products and provides customers with complete product solutions—and has become Qisda's unique ODM competitive strength. By winning the iF Gold Award, the QCM-330 demonstrates the competitiveness of Qisda's mobile communications products. The company's unique design capabilities have helped Qisda become the new model for Taiwan's technology industry.

Qisda's 2010 iF Design Award Winning Products include the:
•QCM-330, an iF Gold Award winning smartphone
•QEB-101 and QEB-102 user-friendly e-readers
•QPC-215, a 21.5" multi-touch All-in-One PC with adjustable viewing angles
•QPD-501 Smartbook, a lightweight mobile internet device
•QTD-101, a 21” multi-touch display with enhanced graphics
•QPS-210, a lightweight and easy to use photo scanner
•QDF-103, a digital photo frame featuring an origami-inspired design
•QIR-103, a digital radio device with multifunctional audio/video capabilities
•QPT-210, a high brightness projector for educational and business applications iF Design Award winners are announced annually at year’s end. Then, in March of the following year, iF Gold Awards are announced for categories such as communications, electronics, transportation, lighting, health care, and others. In each category, one product is named a Gold Award winner. Every year only 50 products can earn this incredible honor. This year, 1,016 companies from 39 countries entered 2,486 products in the iF design award competition, only 50 received a Gold Award.

About Qisda Corporation (www.Qisda.com)

Established in 1984, Qisda is an ODM/ OEM provider of LCD monitors, professional displays and e-signage, projectors, all-in-one PC, scanners, multifunctional printers, home medical gateway, 3G/ smart phones, wireless modules, e-book, car infotainment, digital frames, and a variety of portable consumer electronics devices. Headquartered in Taiwan, Qisda has 4 R&D centers located in Taiwan and China, and 5 global manufacturing sites in China, Czech Republic, Mexico, and Taiwan. In addition to leveraging affiliated companies’ techniques such as LCD, LED, e-paper, touch module, and IC design; Qisda’s in-house vertical-integration capabilities include surface-mount technology (SMT), metal stamping, plastic injection, and LCD module assembling. Although positioned as a manufacturing company, Qisda possesses internationally recognized design capabilities. Since 2008, Qisda started join international design competitions and has won 15 Red Dot, 7 G-Mark, and 15 iF awards. This recognition reinforces Qisda's unique competitive advantage in product design. With 6,600 employees worldwide, 2009 revenue for Qisda Corporation is NTD 79.66 billion.